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Release of the Git source code management system 2.37

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The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.37 has been announced. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible tools for nonlinear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of the history and resistance to changes made 'retroactively,' implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used, and digital signature verification is also possible […]

A vulnerability in OpenSSL 3.0.4 that leads to remote memory corruption of the process.

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A vulnerability has been identified in the OpenSSL cryptographic library (CVE has not yet been assigned), allowing a remote attacker to corrupt the memory contents of a process by sending specially formatted data during the establishment of a TLS connection. It is currently unclear whether this issue could lead to the execution of the attacker's code and data leakage from the process's memory, or if it is limited to just a crash. The vulnerability manifests itself […]

Wifibox 0.10 — An Environment for Using WiFi Drivers on Linux in FreeBSD

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The release of Wifibox 0.10 is now available, aimed at resolving the issue of using wireless adapters in FreeBSD for which the necessary drivers are missing. The problematic adapters for FreeBSD are supported by running a guest system with Linux, in which the native Linux drivers for wireless devices are loaded. The installation of the guest system with drivers is automated, and all necessary components are provided in the form of ready-made […]

The application of asynchronous buffered writing based on io_uring has reduced latency in XFS by up to 80 times.

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A series of patches have been published for inclusion in the Linux 5.20 kernel, adding support for asynchronous buffered writes in the XFS file system using the io_uring mechanism. Preliminary performance tests conducted with the fio tool (1 stream, block size 4KB, 600 seconds, sequential write) show an increase in input/output operations per second (IOPS) from 77k to 209k, data transfer rates from […]

Changes have been accepted in containerd that allow the launch of Linux containers on FreeBSD.

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The containerd project has accepted a set of changes that integrate support for the runj runtime and enable the use of OCI-compatible container images based on Linux in FreeBSD, such as Docker images. The comments on the changes include an example of successfully running an Alpine Linux image in FreeBSD. $ sudo ctr run —rm —runtime wtf.sbk.runj.v1 —tty —snapshotter zfs docker.io/library/alpine:latest test sh -c ‘cat /etc/os-release […

The new version of the Exim mail server is 4.96.

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The release of the Exim 4.96 mail server has taken place, incorporating accumulated fixes and adding new features. According to the May automated survey of about 800,000 mail servers, Exim accounts for 59.59% (up from 59.15% a year ago), Postfix is used on 33.64% (down from 33.76%), Sendmail — 3.55% (unchanged), MailEnable — 1.93% (down from 2.02%), MDaemon — 0.45% (down from 0.56%), Microsoft Exchange — […]

Release of SQLite DBMS 3.39

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The release of SQLite 3.39 has been published, a lightweight DBMS packaged as a dynamic library. SQLite code is released into the public domain, meaning it can be used freely and without restrictions for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a consortium that includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Major changes include the addition of support for right […]

Redbean 2.0 — a platform for web applications packaged in a universal executable ZIP archive

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The release of Redbean 2.0 has been announced, offering a web server that allows web applications to be delivered as a single executable file compatible with Linux, Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. All resources associated with the web application and server are packaged into one executable file, which is also compatible with the ZIP archive format, allowing the use of the zip utility for adding additional […]

The EndeavourOS 22.6 distribution has been released.

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The release of EndeavourOS 22.6 'Atlantis' is now available, replacing the Antergos distribution, which was discontinued in May 2019 due to a lack of time among remaining maintainers to support the project adequately. The installation image size is 1.8 GB (x86_64, with a separate version being developed for ARM). EndeavourOS allows users to install Arch Linux easily without unnecessary complications […]

Release of p2p messenger Communist 1.4

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Version 1.4 of the P2P messenger Communist has been released. The source code is written in C++ and is distributed (GitHub, GitFlic) under the GPLv3 license. The graphical interface is built on the GTK 4 library. It supports operation in Linux and Windows operating systems. Ready packages are prepared for Arch Linux (AUR) and distributions based on the tenth platform Alt Linux. Communist is a simple P2P messenger designed for […]

Release of KaOS 2022.06 distribution

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KaOS 2022.06 has been released, a distribution with a continuous update model aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest KDE releases and applications using Qt. Notable design features specific to the distribution include a vertical panel on the right side of the screen. The distribution is developed with a look at Arch Linux but maintains its own independent repository containing over 1500 packages, and […]

Google has begun rolling out Fuchsia OS-based firmware for Nest Hub Max devices

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Google has begun rolling out a new firmware based on Fuchsia OS for the Nest Hub Max smart photo frames, released since 2019. In the initial phase, the Fuchsia-based firmware will be delivered to participants of the Google Preview Program, and if no unforeseen issues arise during the trial implementation, it will be applied to the devices of other Nest Hub users […]

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